Chapter Eight Entertainment and the Media

School of Applied English

Dalian University of Foreign Languages

Content

Section 1 Warming-up

Section 2 Listening to tape

Section 3 Listening to the song Five Hundred Miles

Section 4 Listening for Main Ideas

Section 5 Watching Friends Excerpt

Section 1 Warming-up

Cultural background of entertainment

Different categories of entertainment

Categories of entertainment

SportsClassical musicOperaPlayPopular musicTV seriesSoap operaFilm ……

Questions

List your top 5 favorite songs or films.

What is the advantage and the disadvantage of watching TV?

Section 2 Listening to tape.

What are Jack and Ming discussing?

Do Jack and Ming have the same opinion about watching TV?

Notes:

average: typical; ordinary.couch potato: couch potato is an

expression used to describe someone who sits in front of the TV all the time eating junk food, such as potato chips.

commercial: short advertising message on radio or television.

remote control: control from a distance of a machine or apparatus, as a guided missile or television, esp. by means of radio signals.

Section 3 Listening to the song

Five Hundred Miles

500 Miles

Section 4 Listening for Main Ideas

Giving a summary for what you have heard in your own words.

Section 5 Watching Friends

Question 1